Signposts

Appointed: Amar Pratap Singh as the CBI director for two years, succeeding Ashwani Kumar. A 1974-batch IPS officer of the Jharkhand cadre, he was serving as special director of the CBI. He has also held post of additional director-general in the BSF.

Re-appointed: Letika Saran as Tamil Nadu DGP. This is the first time that a state police chief has been appointed following the system of empanelment by the UPSC as prescribed by the Supreme Court.

Died: Senior Congress leader and former governor of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh Mahavir Prasad, 71. He was Union deputy minister of Railways from 1988 to 1989. Prasad was also minister of small scale industries and agro and rural industries in UPA-1.